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Mapping fiction: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps | Books | The Guardian
In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler By Veronica Esposito, Wed 19 Jan 2022 07.20 EST From efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On Exactitude in Science (where the only sufficient map is in fact as large as…
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Who’s a clever dog? Scientists study secrets of canine cognition | Dogs | The Guardian
Dogs can figure out some things that even chimps can’t. Our science correspondent puts her puppy retriever to the test By Nicola Davis, Mon 17 Jan 2022 02.00 EST It’s a cold winter’s day, and I’m standing in a room watching my dog stare fixedly at two flower pots. I’m about to get an answer…
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The best science books of 2021 | Science and nature books | The Guardian
Quarantine, the climate crisis, genetics and mysterious illnesses come under the microscope in this year’s highlights By Ian Sample Science editor@iansampleTue 7 Dec 2021 07.00 EST Early in the pandemic it was the blunt tools of past centuries that saved the most lives. Until Proven Safe, by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley (Picador), dives into…
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New network of European sleeper trains planned | Rail travel | The Guardian
Kim Willsher, Tue 22 Jun 2021 08.14 EDT Less than a decade after Europe’s night trains appeared to have reached the end of the line, a new French start-up has announced plans for a network of overnight services out of Paris from 2024. Midnight Trains is hoping post-Covid interest in cleaner, greener travel will generate…
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The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak’ | US news | The Guardian
More than a year into the pandemic, some people prefer to keep wearing their face mask – even outdoors in public Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco @juliacarriew, Mon 10 May 2021 06.00 EDT She’s been fully vaccinated for three weeks, but Francesca, a 46-year-old professor, does not plan to abandon the face mask that…
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Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why Moya Sarner, Wed 14 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT Before the pandemic, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen’s patients might come into his consulting room, lie down on the couch and talk about…
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‘Lucky for him he could write’: Ken Burns takes on Ernest Hemingway
Too white, too male, too privileged – and according to some critics, that’s just one of the co-directors. A new PBS documentary on an American giant sails in stormy waters… “In some ways this is [our] most adult film,” Burns said. “I don’t mean that in any rating way. I mean that in how complicated…
